The Prison Guard
When Alzheimer's disease had completely overtaken my mother, she still remembered — in her own way — the years she served as a corrections officer at the women's prisons of Averoff and Korydallos. She might not have remembered who I was, where she lived, or even what time period we were in, but she often spoke — using their first names — of dozens of inmates, both criminal and political, with whom she had once shared her days. And as she relived "the years of duty" as a jailer, I was forced to relive them too, since my childhood had been marked by repeated visits to "mom's workplace." Our shared journey toward her inevitable end — the delirious monologues and our daily conversations, seen through the distorting lens of the illness — were preserved in two densely filled notebooks. Now, I don't know whether they amount to a confession disguised as fiction or fiction disguised as an autobiographical confession.
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The Prison Guard
When Alzheimer's disease had completely overtaken my mother, she still remembered — in her own way — the years she served as a corrections officer at the women's prisons of Averoff and Korydallos. She might not have remembered who I was, where she lived, or even what time period we were in, but she often spoke — using their first names — of dozens of inmates, both criminal and political, with whom she had once shared her days. And as she relived "the years of duty" as a jailer, I was forced to relive them too, since my childhood had been marked by repeated visits to "mom's workplace." Our shared journey toward her inevitable end — the delirious monologues and our daily conversations, seen through the distorting lens of the illness — were preserved in two densely filled notebooks. Now, I don't know whether they amount to a confession disguised as fiction or fiction disguised as an autobiographical confession.
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The Prison Guard

The Prison Guard

by Níkos G. Davvétas
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The Prison Guard

by Níkos G. Davvétas

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When Alzheimer's disease had completely overtaken my mother, she still remembered — in her own way — the years she served as a corrections officer at the women's prisons of Averoff and Korydallos. She might not have remembered who I was, where she lived, or even what time period we were in, but she often spoke — using their first names — of dozens of inmates, both criminal and political, with whom she had once shared her days. And as she relived "the years of duty" as a jailer, I was forced to relive them too, since my childhood had been marked by repeated visits to "mom's workplace." Our shared journey toward her inevitable end — the delirious monologues and our daily conversations, seen through the distorting lens of the illness — were preserved in two densely filled notebooks. Now, I don't know whether they amount to a confession disguised as fiction or fiction disguised as an autobiographical confession.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9786180714128
Publisher: S. Patakis
Publication date: 06/04/2025
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 356 KB
Language: Greek, Modern (1453- )

About the Author

Ο Νίκος Δαββέτας (Αθήνα 1960), συγγραφέας και κριτικός, εµφανίστηκε στα γράµµατα το 1981 από τις σελίδες του περιοδικού Διαγώνιος του Ντίνου Χριστιανόπουλου. Έχει µέχρι σήµερα εκδώσει δεκατέσσερα βιβλία (επτά ποιητικά, επτά πεζογραφικά). To μυθιστόρημά του Άντρες χωρίς άντρες (Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, 2020) τιµήθηκε το 2022 µε το Κρατικό Βραβείο Μυθιστορήµατος και µε το Βραβείο Ελληνικού Μυθιστορήµατος Athens Prize for Literature. Τέσσερα µυθιστορήµατά του –Το θήραµα, Λευκή πετσέτα στο ρινγκ, Η Εβραία νύφη, Ο ζωγράφος του Μπελογιάννη– συµπεριλήφθηκαν στις βραχείες λίστες των κρατικών βραβείων· η Εβραία νύφη (Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, νέα, αναθεωρημένη έκδοση, 2019) τιµήθηκε το 2010 µε το βραβείο µυθιστορήµατος της Ακαδηµίας Αθηνών. Από τις Εκδόσεις Πατάκη κυκλοφορούν επίσης τα βιβλία του Ωστικό κύμα (2016), Ο ζωγράφος του Μπελογιάννη (2022), Η δεσμοφύλακας (2025). Έργα του έχουν µεταφραστεί στις κυριότερες ευρωπαϊκές γλώσσες. Aπό το 2017 διδάσκει Δημιουργική Γραφή στα μεταπτυχιακά προγράμματα του ΕΑΠ.
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